Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty is racist." This common mantra among the most liberal of capital punishment foes dictates that the state execute a disproportionate number of minorities relative to whites. The NAACP asserts that in 1991, blacks comprised 12 percent of the Texan population but a full 55.5 percent of executed Texans, a ludicrous five-fold over-representation...
...dedicated council members, and I have been privileged to work with them on a variety of issues over the last two years. As council treasurer, Beth has restored order and discipline to our fiscal situation after a period of flux and confusion. She has been a voice of common sense amid the clamor of silliness that so often besets the council, and she will do the student body proud as president. For his part, Sam has brought unrivaled energy and dynamism to his job as chair of the Campus Life Committee; many of you will have seen him staffing...
Shooting to kill is best done at close range, but stand at least three feet back to avoid getting blood spattered on your clothing. You'll want to use a silencer, which you can easily make from common hardware. And aim for the eye sockets; a shot anywhere else in the head might leave the victim alive. Such is the wisdom of Hit Man, a step-by-step guide to succeeding in the paid-killer trade. Author Rex Feral, a pen name that's ersatz Latin for "king of the wild animals," insists that this $10 murder-for-hire manual...
...carefully understated, and director Michael Winterbottom has achieved a remarkably seamless blend of fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral act but as a rather desperate improvisation, an instinctive gesture he needs to make in order to assure his survival as a fully human...
...odyssey of the Goodman family's Degas may have much in common with hundreds of lost works. Landscape with Smokestacks first came into the family on June 9, 1932, when it was acquired at a Paris auction for 10,000 francs (U.S. dollar equivalent at that time, $740) by Simon's grandfather, Friedrich Gutmann, a German-Jewish banker living in Holland. With the onset of World War II, part of the family collection, which included 10 Old Masters and several other Impressionist canvases, was sent to France for safekeeping, only to be seized there by the Nazis. When Germany invaded...